Great Beginnings Quotes

• All glory comes from daring to begin.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Courage, Motivation, Business

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Change, Time

  "Lonely on the Mountain".

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Goodbye, Art, Business

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Dance, Recovery

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  New Beginnings, Tunnels, New Start

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

  James Dobson

  Wisdom, Persistence, Important

  James Dobson (2000). “Stories of Heart and Home”, p.100, Harper Collins

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• The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Teacher, Appreciation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

  Albert Camus

  Creativity, New Beginnings, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

  Robert Frost

  Beginnings And Ends, Beginning Middle And End, Goodbye My Love

  Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, New Beginnings, Yesterday

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

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• Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Encouragement, Foundation, Possibility

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• The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Learning, Creativity, Simple

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• The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg inhabits our first bewilderments, the terrors and the tenderness that shape our lives. To read her is to fall out of the daily into a fresh elation.

  Noy Holland

  Fall, Seductive, Stories

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• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

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• Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

  Maud Adams

  Ambition, Mind, Needs

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